I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.